Third Thursdays With "ornette Speaks" Creator Matthew Brown: Live Art With Jazz Quartet And Solo Violin. at Harvard-Epworth United Methodist Church

For August’s “Third Thursdays” monthly jazz series concert, artist Matthew Brown, author of the graphic novel "Ornette Speaks: A Cartoon Grammar", will create in real time, in his bold brush style, inspired by the live accompaniment of series host keyboardist Dave Bryant, saxophonist Jorrit Dijkstra, bassist Jacob William, and drummer Miki Matsuki and by Daniel Kurganov performing Ornette Coleman’s “Trinity,” a piece for solo violin.

Matthew Brown was part of the Montreal underground zine scene of the early 1990s, and he credits his artistic approach to inspiration from the work of many free jazz artists, including Archie Shepp, Don Cherry, Thelonius Monk, Eric Dolphy, and Ornette Coleman...

read more

For August’s “Third Thursdays” monthly jazz series concert, artist Matthew Brown, author of the graphic novel "Ornette Speaks: A Cartoon Grammar", will create in real time, in his bold brush style, inspired by the live accompaniment of series host keyboardist Dave Bryant, saxophonist Jorrit Dijkstra, bassist Jacob William, and drummer Miki Matsuki and by Daniel Kurganov performing Ornette Coleman’s “Trinity,” a piece for solo violin.

Matthew Brown was part of the Montreal underground zine scene of the early 1990s, and he credits his artistic approach to inspiration from the work of many free jazz artists, including Archie Shepp, Don Cherry, Thelonius Monk, Eric Dolphy, and Ornette Coleman. In Ornette Speaks, quotes from interviews with Ornette Coleman are presented in a graphic documentary format with a docu-brush style that has been described as “gestural and wild … and emphatically rhythmic.” Brown has since published a graphic novel that explores the life of Eric Dolphy, and a graphic novel on Thelonious Monk is forthcoming.

show less